Tag : exhibition

Conversation with a Curator: Avery Exhibit Features Works by Artist Wife and Daughter

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“Summer with the Averys [Milton/Sally/March],” a remarkable show at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, presents the work of american painter Milton Avery alongside that of his wife Sally and their daughter March, who were both artists in their own right.

A Jewish girl born in 1902, Sally Avery (née Michel) studied painting at the Arts Students League and met Milton in 1924; she was 22 and he was 39. They married in 1926 and embarked upon an unusual artistic life together.

Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough talks to Stephanie Guyet (who assisted Professor Kenneth E. Silver in mounting the show) about the special role Sally played in her husband’s life and career.

Frida Kahlo •

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo—maybe you knew her first via her iconic unibrow—came to defined through her multiple ethnicities, disability and politics, all of which were at the heart of her work. Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving is the first exhibition in the United States to display alongside important paintings, drawings, and photographs a collection of her clothing and other personal possessions, plus historical film and ephemera. Kahlo’s ”stuff”—from her Tehuana clothing and contemporary and pre-Colonial jewelry to the hand-painted corsets and prosthetics Kahlo used as a result of lifelong painful injuries sustained from a bus accident as a young woman. These artifacts had been stored in Casa Azul (Blue House), the longtime Mexico City home of Kahlo and her husband, artist Diego Rivera. At the Brooklyn Museum through May 12.

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A recorded conversation with Joy Ladin at Washington's DCJCC. She's wonderfully instructive, sometimes in deeply poignant ways; listen carefully here when she describes, among other things, the plight of transgender teens and their very basic need for shelter.